Church, Gospel, and Empire Quotes

“However, the unapologetic standpoint taken in this project regards the second of these trajectories with its humble identification with the poor, as seen in the Magnificat’s pulling down of the mighty and the Beatitudes’ love for one’s enemies, as the radical Christianity of the gospel testimony. The orientation of the thesis, therefore, is to seek out answers as to how this lowly stance was subverted into support for the higher power and suggests that it happened as the result of an invasion and colonization of the concept of transcendence by sovereignty. As a result, what was originally a single identity for Christianity has been divided through the development of ecclesiastical structures and theologies that have colluded with empire.”
― Roger Haydon Mitchell, Church, Gospel, and Empire: How the Politics of Sovereignty Impregnated the West